PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Relativism, Moral Realism, Meta-Ethics
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If moral systems are, in part, a product of evolution, we should see evidence of "proto- morality" in apes and young children: there should be detectable differences in what is considered within the moral domain across cultures. In fact, he threw the piece of cucumber at the experimenter. Two monkeys were paid unequally: excerpt from frans de waal"s ted talk. In the equality condition, when both capuchins received the same reward for the same task, the monkeys were happy to cooperate and continued exchanging the rock and taking the reward. Do infants have a sense of fairness? (sloane et al. , 2012) (study): study 1 rationale: Included to rule out the possibility that children might believe similar individuals to have similar numbers of objects. Inanimate condition: events identical to the "animate condition" except the puppets were not active. Survival: emphasis on economic and physical security; linked with ethnocentric outlook and low levels of trust and tolerance.
